Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-06-22
DAKOTA NEWS.

session recently at Huron.
Hanson county will refund its debt OF
$5, 900 in the near future.
Six teams are kept busy hauling fax
straw to keep the Egan tow-mill running.
The Burlington ran its first excursion
train from Sioux Falls to Spirit Lake re-
Gently.
Papers throughout the territory are
booming the division question with
wonderful unanmity.
The gas we'll near Blunt is counted upon
rs sufficient TO furnish that town with light
and fuel for the future.
In the division OF moneys for military
purposes, Dakota gets $2,764 and all other
territories the same amount.
Rev. A. A. Murphy has resigned the
pastorate OF the Huron Congregational
church because OF i'll health.
Charles Green and William Hamlin,
the Pierre no Sc thieves have been landed
in the Sioux Falls penitentiary.
A band Of fortune telling gypsies have
been doing Hourishing business at the ex-
pense Of credulous citizens Of Hot Springs.
The territorial grand lodge Of Masons
was in session at Huron lately and the
crowd was estimated at between 1000 and
5000.
1t is given out that the Milwaukee hns
just made new tariff from Chicago to
Fargo which is greatly below any former
rates.
--Sturgis wants the land office, and the
Record says that to move it to Rapid City
would only be to make . bad matter
worse.
Judge Spencer, who is attending court
at Pierre, narrowly escaped severe injury
recently, being thrown from buggy by
runaway horse.
The contract for the construction Of
the new asylum building at jamestown has
been let to H. c. and J.. s. Hotchkiss, their
bid being $SS. 1859.
Huron has an over supply Of vicious
CANNES, and the citizens propose TO go
cunning for them unless the marshal saves
them that trouble.
A colony Of about 200 people from the
borders Of the sea Of Azov, in Southern
Russia, are locating in the eastern part OF
Edmunds county.
A syndicate Of Maine capitalists have
taken hold Of the Forest City mills at
Pierre, and will build -four mill and put
steamboat on the river.
--Sturgis is putting on metropolitan airs
rapidly. New buildings going up all over
town; new sidewalks being laid and various
other improvements being effected.
The Sioux Falls Argus Leader will
hereafter be four pages instead OF eight,
except on Saturday. when the quarto form
will be used. The change is a sensible
one.
John Shay, superintendent OF bridges
on the Chicago and Northwestern railway.
has instructions TO put in bridges on the
extension to Gettysburg, a distance Of forty
miles.
intending to build church ediHce at High
more. A committee 10 select location
and plans and specifications has bsen ap-
pointed.
The Tin Mountain tin mine, six miles
west of Custer, has been sold to Chicago
parties for $4,000 cash, and the pur-
chasers expect to commence development
work soon.
Fargo has sensation about young
girl of st. Paul, who was taken to house
Of ill-shape in the town first named, with
out being aware of its nature and against
her will.
A wonderful cave has been discovered
near Bakerville, in the Black Hills. Il is
said to be larger than the celebrated 'Cave
Of the Winds" and abounis in natural
curiosities.
John Coswin, who last fall obtained
q $500 loan on another mans land at
Hghmore, has been captured by the
sheriff and returned to the scene of his
rascality.
A deputy sheriff attempted to foreclose
a chattel mortgage against swede farmer
named Ericsson. near Fargo, but the
Swede's friends to the number of about
fifty drove the officer away.
A man named Clayton, who lived near
Frederick, was being let down fifty foot
we'll in bucket when the rope broke, let
ting him fall about twenty feet. He was
badly hurt but may recover.
Work has commenced on Aberdeen's
new city hall and it will be pushed forward
as rapidly as possible. The people there
hope to see the building occupied by the
Brown county officials after July IL.
s. Mccormack, Of Sioux Falls, has
been awarded the contract for building the
Loan and Trust company's block at Water
town. The stone, iron work and contrac-
tors all 90 from Sioux Falls for the new
building.
Groton is having a queer experience
with an artesian we'll, the water having
forced an opening about two blocks north
| of the mouth Of the we'll, and there are
| grave apprehensions Of trouble from the
eccentric spouter.
The crop Of wild hay will be almost .
total failure in the Black Hills county and
many farmers in that region are putting in
large fields Of millet and Hungarian grass.
These tame grasses with the native that can
be cut in enclosures will make more hay
than is usually put mp.
| AT Flandrau recently lightning rod
agent attempted to ravish the wife Of G..
| w. Mills, a farmer residing about ten miles
west Of there. He induced her to take
hold Of the handles Of an electric battery,
and while under tho influence Of the shock
took advantage Of her. He has not been
arrested.
"A Huron correspondent thinks that .
long stride forward was taken on the tenn